What are the advantages of digital media? A. Network communication is avoided.…

Concept

The advantages of a digital medium follow from its networked, reproducible, and participatory nature.

A feature is an advantage when it broadens creation and distribution, speeds delivery, or lowers duplication costs; a claim that denies connectivity or civic relevance points in the opposite direction.

Application

• The claim about avoiding network communication conflicts with the connected character of digital media, so statement A is not an advantage.

• Enabling people to create and distribute media content is a participatory advantage, so statement B is an advantage.

• Delivering an end-product in real time is a speed and reach advantage, so statement C is an advantage.

• Lower-cost reproduction and distribution is an economic advantage, so statement D is an advantage.

• Online political involvement can be an important form of civic participation; denying its importance is not an advantage, so statement E is not an advantage.

Contrast

• A, B, C only includes the communication-avoidance claim A and omits the lower-cost claim D.

• B, C, D only groups the participatory, real-time, and lower-cost features.

• C, D, E only includes the claim E that online political involvement has no importance.

• A, B, E only includes both the communication-avoidance claim A and the no-importance claim E.

Cross-check

The positive features are precisely participation in creation and distribution, real-time delivery, and lower-cost reproduction and distribution.

Result

Thus the accepted combination is B, C, D only.